Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The #BayArea should have built an additional 700k units of #housing since 2000 in order to keep costs at 30% of income...Instead we only built 316k market rate units at $3k/month+ and 42k units of #affordablehousing, according to new @SPUR_Urbanist post: spur.org/news/2019-02-21/how…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
An early look at next week’s cover, "The Real Emergency," by Barry Blitt: nyer.cm/L7T2O4Q
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Good thread on climate change and fighting for political change vs. individual action:
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Betsy DeVos, Alex Acosta, Elaine Chao and Wilbur Ross all had scandals this week that would be multi-day stories under a regular administration
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We just accept that large numbers of people die from pollution from fossil fuels (and biomass), but panic about small numbers of deaths from nuclear power.
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See the deaths-per-TWh table (white text on a gray background) about halfway down this article nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/up…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I am proud to unveil today the “Housing Crisis Act of 2019,” a sweeping new initiative that will speed up the creation of new housing in California at a time when the state is facing an extreme housing crisis in both supply and affordability.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SB 330, Housing Crisis Act of 2019, was just introduced by Senator @NancySkinnerCA. The bill, among other provisions, would prohibit building moratoria and downzoning of parcels by local jurisdictions, waive parking requirements, and waive fees for #affordablehousing until 2030.
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Maybe some combination of having rigid zoning laws that prohibit property from being used in better ways, and being in a place where even if most people can get around without cars, the decision makers are people who drive? Seems like there must be other factors, though...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
JUST IN: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released an interim report based on multiple whistleblowers who say the Trump administration is rushing to transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law.
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trumanlibrary.org/speriod.ht… has a brief summary. Basic problem is that it's just an S on his birth certificate so it could be after either of his 2 grandfathers...
Have I ever told you the story about how the more pedantic students of US history insist that the name of the 33rd US president be written "Harry S Truman", without a . after the S ... ?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
From the Editorial Board: A crafty plan to bring the perennial debt-ceiling debate down to earth wapo.st/2SFgi5H
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Young Republican voters began to slip away from the party in 2016. More left in 2018. What about 2020? @SeanMcElwee, @b_schaffner, @JesseRhodesPS and @blfraga analyze the data. nyti.ms/2DJGjq9
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I haven't tried... although I'd guess the main potential problem would be if it needed long resting time after forming the loaf, although even that isn't a problem as long as I don't mind the bread being a bit flat.
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That said, my bread-baking experience is all no-knead breads (most recipes from artisanbreadinfive.com/) with high water content, so I'm accustomed to cheating, and thus my advice might not be applicable at all. [2/2]
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One other thing that might affect density is quantity of salt. (Different physical forms of salt,e.g., small/large crystals, are different density, so dealing with recipes that measure salt by volume requires care.) Salt suppresses yeast activity and makes bread denser... [1/2]
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Interesting Northwestern University paper from late last year - definitely warrants a deeper dive. "Does Luxury Housing Construction Increase Nearby Rents?" Their preliminary results seem to indicate...no.
appam.confex.com/appam/2018/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here's the full scoop (and I think this is indeed the first coverage of this particular angle): sightline.org/2019/02/14/bel…
The headline is accurate.
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